Good evening, this is Koide from Freeway's Sado shop!
Today we once again ran dives at sites all around.
◇FUN: Yabiki's team, Kitakoura
◇FUN: Nakagawa's team, Kitakoura...
◇FUN: Okada's team, Mushizaki, Kitakoura and a night dive
◇FUN: Koide's team, Ogi
◇Course: Sakuma's team, Himezu
Iwashiguri
It's now birthing season for the okitanago (a surfperch)!
Okitanago are fish that raise their young inside their bellies and then give birth.
That period lasts about 5 to 6 months.
Each belly apparently holds 10 to 20 young.
Last week their bellies were swollen tight,
so we were hoping they'd give birth any day now?! But
it seems they had already finished, and tiny okitanago were swimming in big clusters in the shallows.
It's a shame we couldn't see the birth itself, but
there were juveniles everywhere, and it was a fun dive!
Right now, Yabiki and Kana are out running a night dive. I can't wait to hear what creatures they found!
Today's dive sites: Ogi
①Iwashiguri
②Shintani Cape
③Sengoku
◇Air temp: 29°C
◇Water temp: 16°C to 19°C
◇Visibility: 10 m
◇Marine life
Okitanago (adults and juveniles), a school of damselfish, a school of mebaru (rockfish), a school of mejina (largescale blackfish), hiramasa (yellowtail amberjack), ishidai (striped beakfish), madai (red sea bream), kurodai (blackhead seabream), a school of warasa (Japanese amberjack, medium size), ryuguhaze, nishikihaze and hoshinohaze (gobies), a school of chagara (a goby), shiro umiushi, ao umiushi, yubi umiushi and arimo umiushi (nudibranchs), onomichi kisango and mutsu sango (corals), futoyagi (a gorgonian), and dense beds of hondawara (sargassum). It was a beautiful world of seaweed and sunshine.
